Oncohematology

Acute Leukemia in a Rat: Blast Morphology in Blood Smear

A case of acute leukemia in a rat: leukocytosis 258×10⁹/L, total infiltration with blast cells. Blood smear microscopy, Romanowsky-Giemsa stain.

Peripheral blood of a rat. Patient: 1 year old.

Total white blood cell count: 258 thousand/µL

Romanowsky-Giemsa stain, magnification x1000

🙏 Publication kindly provided by hematologist of the VETLAB veterinary laboratory network Amira Kuznetsova, Moscow